Overview

Location

Adams County, MS. On the original land survey from about 1800, William G. Forman is listed as the owner of this lant at T7N-R2W, sections 16, 17, 14 and the land west of the creek in section 18. This would make this plantation about 600 acres in size. Maps showing this land can be found on-line at two websites: www.glorecords.blm.gov (the government land office records at the Bureau of Land Management's website) and at the MS Department of Transportation's website on their county highway maps.

The plantation was located just to the north of and adjoining Lansdowne Plantation (formerly known as Ivy Place) in Adams Co., MS.

Date Constructed/ Founded

This plantation was on land that originally belonged to William G. Forman in about 1800.

Associated Surnames

Forman,Dunbar, Ferguson, Hunt

Historical notes

Wild land was land that had not been cleared. Thus, the name Wilderness suggests that the land possibly was some of the last to be cleared in the area, or that much of the plantation's land was not cleared.

The original land owner, William G. Forman, was a business partner of Abijah Hunt (David Hunt's benefactor). However, according to a David Hunt descendant, this plantation passed to David Hunt from Robert Dunbar. Thus, Robert Dunbar must have bought this plantation from William Forman. Then the plantation passed to Robert's daughter and son-in-law - Jane and David Ferguson. Next it passed to Jane and David Ferguson's daughter and son-in-law - Ann and David Hunt.

In the WPA Slave Narrative of Cyrus Bellus, he states that he had been born in Jefferson Co in 1865 and that his parents had been slaves of David Hunt (Woodlawn Plantation). He goes on to say that later he farmed on Wilderness Place in the Cotton Belt of Mississippi. Thus, it would make sense if he was speaking of the Hunt's Wilderness Plantation in this location.

Associated Slave Workplaces

• see Woodlawn Plantation MS

Associated Free Persons

• William G. Forman - owner
• Robert Dunbar - owner
• Robert Ferguson and his wife Jand Dunbar - owners
• David Hunt and his wife Ann Jane Ferguson - owners

Associated Enslaved Persons

• none recorded yet

Research Leads and Plantation Records

• none reported yet

Miscellaneous Information

• none

References

**From the WPA Slave Narratives, Cyrus Bellus. http://www.rootsweb.com/~msjeffe2/aframerican.htm
*The Hunt Family of Jefferson County, by Andy McMillion http://www.rootsweb.com/~msjeffe2/hunt_family.htm

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